CHAPTER 5—MORE CANDIES

"That night was another crazy one. 10-month-old Petunia got her hands on one of the pieces of candy and hid it in her teddy bear, which had a rip on the seam.



That night, after Virginia put the three girls to bed, Petunia began to eat the candy.
The next morning, When Virginia came into the room to check on the babies, she was quite surprised to find that the teddy bear in Petunia's crib was growing human parts and the sleeping child was growing teddy bear parts. Virginia ran to get Harold and they quickly went to Petunia's crib.
They arrived in time to see her ears appear on the bear and the bear's ears appear on her. The second to last thing was her face turned into his and vice versa. Then finally, all the seams disappeared from the bear and rippled on to the child, who woke with a start and started to cry.

The next few weeks went by rather uneventfully. Harold was taking care of the Wesley's shop. Virginia put the candies out of reach of little hands.
In fact, nothing went wrong for three weeks. Then the Weasleys and the Grangers came home from their trip. Hermione and Ron persuaded their parents (and supposedly Harry's Uncle) to let them come over and stay for a week at Harry's house.
Last they knew, however, was that Harry was Harold and Vernon was Virginia; there was baby Petunia and finally, Dudley was a dog. Boy, were they in for the surprise of their life.

Ron and Hermione arrived via flew powder at approximately noon. Everyone was home at the time, but Ron and Hermione weren't expecting to see two infants who weren't Petunia, sitting on Virginia's lap and who were taking turns being fed by her. Harold walked into the living room.
"Where'd these two babies come from, Harry?" Hermione asked.
"They were born on July 14th. Aren't our children beautiful?"
Ron's jaw dropped to the floor, "You're children? They're yours?"
"Of course. Who else's would they be? My darling Virginia gave birth first thing in the morning."
Hermione looked dumbstruck.
PLOP! Ron fainted and fell to the floor.

For once in her life, Hermione wasn't thinking straight. Last time she had seen someone faint, the person was given chocolate to make him feel better. So, she unwittingly stood up and looked around. Seeing a bowl of candies on the mantle, she grabbed a piece of chocolate from it and shoved it into Ron's mouth before Harold or Virginia could react.
"NO! Don't!" Harold cried, just a moment to late. You see, that was the bowl of Fred and George's candies.
"What's wrong?" Hermione asked, popping another piece of candy into her own mouth.
"Dearie, you're both in for it now," Virginia stated.
Ron sat up, rubbing his head, "She in for what?"
"Not just her, you too, for you both just ate one of Fred and George's candies," Virginia said calmly, as changes in the two dumbstruck teenagers began to occur.

Ron's eyes went wide as his arms and legs sprouted course, black hairs. Suddenly, four more legs sprouted from his sides and six more eyes appeared on his face. Slowly his body became that of a spider, and yet he started to grow. Pincers sprouted from below his neck and started making clicking noises, as he said, "What's happening to me?"
Within minutes, He had turned into a giant spider; an Acromantula, to be exact. He was suddenly even more scared because he had an urge to eat every person in the room.

Meanwhile, Hermione was also changing drastically. She bean to shrink, and started to turn a greenish brown color. Her ears became pointy and moved closer to the top of her head. Big, almost beady black eyes replaced her own, and her hands and feet became slightly larger then normal, with elongated fingers and toes. When she finally stopped changing, she stood a mere two and a half feet tall, and wore only a pillowcase, instead of her clothes. She had become a house elf.



"So basically," Fred stated, "Ron became his worse nightmare, and Hermione became one of those she was trying to liberate."
"It was quit amusing," George said, "but I was a bit nervous about Ron. What if he tried to eat one of us?"